According to a USCIS News Release: “…the Department of Homeland Security will not begin accepting requests for the expansion of DACA tomorrow, February 18, as originally planned. Until further notice, we will also suspend the plan to accept requests for DAPA.”
The injunction issued by a Texas District Court judge is temporary and is to allow time for the states that have filed a lawsuit objecting to President Obama’s Executive Orders on Immigration to argue their case. This has no bearing on the final outcome of this matter and most legal scholars agree that the President’s order was well within his legal authority.
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